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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032

An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

New York Magazine · 20h

Is a Big Asteroid Going to Hit Earth in 2032?

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a dinosaurs-killing size. Three hundred feet wide is about on par with the asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 (also known as the 1908 Tunguska Event).

The Washington Post on MSN · 22h

An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032. Here’s why experts say do not panic.

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

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Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.

A team of researchers think they know the origin of a massive space rock that hit Earth and killed off almost all the dinosaurs 66 ... determine the dino-killing asteroid's origin, researchers ...

BBC4mon

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Space on MSN3d

What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?

Engaging articles, breathtaking images and expert knowledge Issues delivered straight to your door What would happen if Earth ...

PBS2mon

What Killed the Dinosaurs?

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... climatic extremes caused the extinction of not just the dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals living ...

Courthouse News Service1mon

Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs struck them down in their prime, study says

(Henry Sharpe) (CN) — An international team of paleontologists and ecologists hope their study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, will resolve the ongoing debate on the dinosaurs’ status ...

Irish Sun9d

First bird to roam Earth after dinosaurs were killed by asteroid revealed and it’s a relative of much-loved species

after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so even after an Earth-shattering asteroid strike 66million years ago.

CBS News2d

Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth go up as Webb telescope is tasked with studying potential "city-killer"

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting ... "It wouldn't be something like the rock that killed the dinosaurs," Harwood said. "It wouldn't affect the global climate, but it would certainly ...

Phys.org12d

Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth: What we know so far

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving ... that objects like the one that killed the dinosaurs only hit Earth every ...

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